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I love this video on corn, he says it even takes off the hairs. I can't wait to try this next summer. Another food video I've seen lately that I want to try, is cooking pasta in a skillet.

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This recipe came from my former mother-in-law. She made it for the big family meals, and I loved it so much, I got the recipe and started bringing it to my side of the family big family meals. So my family attributes the recipe to me. It's funny how we have 'official' recipes and then we have how we really make it. I'll list the official recipe, but then I'll tell you the secrets, as well. Oh,

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A blog that combines two of my passions, and will be posted on two of my blogs: The Gamer's CookbookCookstr is in beta, but looks to be off to a good start. Thrift Kitchen a new blog who's name should explain it all.And a link for me for later, something that I want to make for me and the other veggie-wannabe in the house, smashed chickpeas.

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I wanted to share my menu for Christmas dinner this year, no recipes, but just a foodie story. I've wanted to try tur-duc-hen ever since the first time I heard about it on the Food Network. It's a chicken stuffed inside a duck, stuffed inside a turkey, with stuffing inside the chicken to boot! I was surprised a few years ago when I saw some for sale in the local grocery stores, but more surprised

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The BFF's birthday was yesterday (Happy Birthday, Honey!), and one of my gifts to him was having a drawing made of him as a zombie from Monster By Mail. We love zombie movies, and especially zombie games, and I've had it planned for a while to have him drawn as a zombie. Since his birthday was going to fall on a Saturday, when he doesn't work, but I like making treats for him to share at work, so

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I like finding recipes on All Recipes.com, I love that you can save your recipes on their site. I know there are other recipe sites that also have recipe box or books, I use a couple others, but I like All Recipes best. I get their e-mail weekly, so I am always checking out new recipes from them. I've been trying to simplify my big cooking on the weekends, so I have more time with all my guys, so

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Smorgasbord penguins Originally uploaded by sparkleneely Awesome penguin eggs! This comes from a cool flickr group of retro food. Stuff I need to try!

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Five Live Radar Chili Originally uploaded by seeshells Three meats, two beans, that's Five Live Radar! Garlic and onions without having to chop them, marinating, and the crock pot make this recipe less time consuming. (Five Live Radar is part of the Channel 8 weather expertise)Ingredients:1 lb chicken breast (about 3 breasts)1 TBSP garlic powder2 TBSP cumin2 TBSP mild chili powder1 TBSP

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Just Because It Doesn't Have Spice, Doesn't Mean It Doesn't Have Taste Corn Salad Originally uploaded by seeshells One of our friends at work is starting a new job, so we're having food day for her tomorrow. I've made a different corn salad for food day before, but that one has yummy stuff like onions and peppers, but the friend that's leaving doesn't like spicey, so I made a new recipe

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Tuna Mountain Climbers in progress Originally uploaded by seeshells Tuna Mountain Climbers were one of the popular dishes made in my elementary school. One of my favorites. The lunch ladies made them on left over hamburger buns and used plastic-wrapped cheese, but in my updated recipe, I'm using Texas Toast and CoJack. I don't know where the name came from, they are just tuna melts

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Lemon Curry Sauce Over Pork Chop Originally uploaded by seeshells 6 TBSP Butter11 cloves garlic1 tsp lemon peel (bought in the spice section)5-8 tsp curry (to taste)1 lemon8 oz cream cheese8 oz sour cream2-3 tsp lemon pepper seasoning Lemon Curry Sauce Originally uploaded by seeshells Set out cream cheese to soften.Melt 4 TBSP of the butter in sauce pan, saute sliced garlic until

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Meatloaf Cake Cut Originally uploaded by seeshells My 'famous' Meat Loaf aka Meat Wads, made into Meatloaf Cake2 lbs ground beef1 lb ground pork (plain pork, or ground pork sausage of whatever flavor strikes my fancy that night--or is on sale)1 box pork flavored stuffing mix2 eggs2 cups shredded cheese (usually cheddar, but subject to change)Any/all (within reason) of the following:Garlic

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Green Salsa Originally uploaded by seeshells Green SalsaThursday, August 02, 09:50 PM By Shelly9 medium tomatillo tomatoes4 clove garlic, peeled2 jalapeno chile pepper2 bunches fresh cilantro7 ripe avocadosChop cilantro, dice garlic and chile, cut tomatillos into thumb-sized pieces.Cut avocados in half, remove pit, and squish flesh out of skin.Puree all ingredients in blender, you might

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We had a Holiday potluck at work, which included all three floors, and that means 5 different teams of people. Out of a potential couple hundred, I think between 75-100 actually joined in. I was not on the committee, but they did a pretty good job, outlining each team to bring a specific category. Our food was appetizer and salads (on the team I was on last week). So I was looking for a good

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Bisquit crust made from Jiffy mix. Eggs and milk, and a handfull of the peppers out of the freezer. Couldn't be easier!

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Happy Birthday to my Guy! Bringing treats to the office for him, and since he's diabetic, I wanted to maybe forgo the traditional cake, so I was excited to find this recipe. It sounds great for a guy to bring for treats for his birthday, right?Well, he still wanted the cake, and since he promised to only eat one small piece, and give the rest to his co-workers, I gave in. The cake was just box

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I had been wanting to try this recipe ever since I saw it. I've always heard that spicey brings out the flavor of good dark chocolate. And boy, did it ever! I made the recipe plain, no filling. They were the best! I had to hunt around town for the Dutch cocoa, but it was totally worth it. Some for all interested parties at work's food day, and a couple to share at home. I'd like to make this

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I got this idea from my maternal grandmother. When she cleaned out her chest freezer last year, we 'inhereted' several items, including a few bags of chopped onions. She cooks for just herself now, and probably doesn't need even a whole onion.When I made a recipe that wanted a part of each red, yellow, and green peppers, and red onion, I decided to chop the rest up for the freezer. Other times, I

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I've been thinking about peaches this week, I bought 5 for making something. I've also been thinking pie lately. I'm still using store-bought crust, but I've made a pie at least once a month lately. I think my goal is a pie a week. So with the fresh peaches, and the love of pies, I searched for a simple peach pie recipe. So many are peaches and cream, or peach caramel, or something, but I wanted

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I posted this recipe with a story about family June 2004, after my paternal grandmother died. (Read it here if you like.)This recipe was one of those good memories from my childhood. It's so simple to make, and tasty. Now I make it for my kids every now and then to give them some good memories, too.E-Z PEACH COBBLERfrom mom's church cookbook1 2lb can peaches with juice1 butter brickle cake mix (I

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As my Bloglines blogroll shows, Retro food is all the rage. I found this recipe through Laura Rebecca's Kitchen, she found it on Something So Clever and it's listed on allrecipes. When I saw it, I knew it would be perfect for food day at work. I like sometimes making something very sweet and rich for food day, I can make a big batch, leave a couple servings at home for the boys (two kids who

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I make "french toast" in the most basic way: eggs, milk, cinnamon, sugar or splenda, a little vanilla. Soak the bread a little or a lot, depending on how soggy you want it, and fry on both sides. There's usually some egg mixture left over, and my mom would scramble that up, and my dad loved it. I didn't really like it, and my kids didn't either, so I'd just try to make the egg mixture work out

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I didn't make meatloaf my whole adult life until a few years ago when I found this recipe. (come to think of it, I don't think I ever made meatloaf as a kid, either, so I may have actually never made a meatloaf before this) My aversion to meatloaf fell in the category of "Recipes of my Mother's that I didn't like", I never liked my mom's meatloaf. Sorry, Mom!* So I never made meatloaf. (Oh, plus

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15 Min Chicken & Rice Dinner 1 tbsp vegetable oil 4 boneless chicken breast halves 1 can (10 3/4 oz.) Campbell's Cream of Chicken or 98% Fat Free Cream of Chicken Soup 1 1/2 cups water 1/4 tsp each paprika and pepper2 cups Minute White Rice, uncooked*2 cups fresh or frozen broccoli floweretsHeat oil in skillet. Add chicken and cook until browned. Remove chicken. Add soup, water, paprika and

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FRESH_GOOSEBERRY_PIE (recipe replay) Crush 1/2 cup gooseberries , combine with 1 1/2 cups sugar, 3 Tbsps. quick-cooking tapioca, and 1/4 tsp. salt. Cook and stir until mixture thickens and boils. Add 2 1/2 cups whole berries. Fill pastry shell. Dot with 2 Tbsps. butter or oleo. Put on top crust, seal, cut slits for steam to escape. Bake in a hot oven (400) for 30-40 minutes or until crust is

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We celebrated the 4th yesterday, since one of us has to work today, and some more of us have to get up tomorrow. Our 4th celebration was pure geek-heaven: we played an RPG (role playing game) all day yesterday, and some the night before, too. It was fun for everyone! In the planning stages, I had to figure out a menu that would work with gaming, and would not make me, as the cook, have to do any

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First, appologies for the photo. Here's what happened: I brought a double batch of this cheese ball recipe to Food Day at work today, set it down on the table, brought my camera back for the photo maybe 10 minutes later, this photo was all I got. So I guess everyone liked it! I'm going to make it again for our 4th celebration.Dried Beef Cheese Ball1 package cream cheese (regular or low fat)1 can

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Cheap with a capital "Ch" and loved by my kids: Burrito Bake. One package (8-10) frozen burritos of your favorite flavorTwo cans refried beansOne can/jar taco sauce/enchilada sauceOne package (2 cups) shredded cheese of your choiceSpread the beans in a cake pan-type casserole dish. Place the burritos in a single row on the beans. Pour sauce over all burritos. Bake at the temp/time suggested on

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2-3 pounds sliced carrots1 green pepper, diced3 medium onions, sliced in rings1 10 1/2 oz can undiluted tomato soup1/2 cup oil3/4 cup vinegar3/4 cup sugarPinch of salt and pepper1 teaspoon prepared mustard1 teaspoon Worcesterchire sauceParboil sliced carrots for 10 to 15 minutes or until tender but not too soft. Drain. Mix the rest of the ingredients and add carrots. Let set overnight in

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So I want to submit a recipe to All Recipes, so when I was cooking last night, I took several pictures, and made sure to write down all the ingredients and steps. I tend to cook 'by the seat of my pants' and if I try to write down the recipe later, I don't remember everything I did. This recipe is kind of based on one of the recipes we made at Supper Thyme, Cowpokes (#3 in this post. I used cream

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FRESH GOOSEBERRY PIEPrepare pastry (my recipe to follow) for two-crust 9 inch pie and line pie plate with pastry.Crush 1/2 cup gooseberries (I use potato masher), combine with 1 1/2 cups sugar, 3 Tbsps. quick-cooking tapioca, and 1/4 tsp. salt. Cook and stir until mixture thickens and boils. Add 2 1/2 cups whole berries. Fill pastry shell. Dot with 2 Tbsps. butter or oleo. Put on top crust,

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Since one of the biggest things in my life is cooking, with all that comes with it, the planning, shopping, cleaning up, etc, I think I'll dust off this ol' blog.Let me outline a bit of my world for some background. I was always a great cook as a kid. I was in 4-H, took cakes and cookies to the fair, saved all the best recipes out of Seventeen magazine (I'll bet they don't even have recipes

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Meal #5: Sesame Ginger ChickenWe ate this one without the kids, but it could have fed us all. The flavor was a little odd, not bad, but just like 'what ingredients did we put in this?' strange. We got rice to go with it, and some frozen veggies. The rice, we had one of our pseudo-fights in the store, and I insisted on the one bag of rice, because it had chinese writing on it, so it must be good

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With the BFF's birthday coming up, and being kid-less this weekend, I figured we'd try something new on the PoGo card. I thought maybe we'd try the cajun place, but he wanted to try the chicken place. (His birthday, his choice--we'll try the cajun place in December)Sadie's is a bar and restaurant connected to the Villager motel out on "O" street about 52nd, by the Barnes and Noble.Walking in, it

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In our last episode, the BFF and I had gone to Supper Thyme and made 12 meals...We've eaten a few meals so far, and at work I got a visitor from the cinnamon roll fairy!Meal #1: Sweet BBQ Meatball Sandwich This was the sample meal they made the night we were cooking, so BFF and I had already tasted it. We both really liked it, but I thought it was too sweet. Same thing when we actually ate it.

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Most folks have pot lucks or food days as a semi-regular part of their lives. I've always enjoyed regular food days at the places I've worked, it has always given me an opportunity to try new recipes, and show off some of my favorites.Since I've only been at the new job for a couple months, I've only experienced two food days so far, and I just bought stuff so far. So this time, I'm actually

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Very fun, good looking food, nice AND helpful staff, clean environment, lots of free soda. Overall, a great experience.Even though we were early, they were completely ready for us, they gave us the instructions, and two lists, one to take home to put on the fridge, and a checklist to carry around with us while we were making our dinners.Here's what we made:Baked SpaghettiBeer Can ChickenChicken

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AND!!!We're signed up for Supper Thyme this week! We're going to make 12 meals in two hours, while actually being on a kinda date! We're very excited! And I'll let you know how it goes.

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One fun supper we've discovered in our local market is a combo of a big frozen dinner plus a couple free things thrown in. Of course, it's just a sales gimmic, and you only save four and a half bucks, and as always, if you weren't going to buy it anyway, it doesn't matter if you get it free, BUT, the free things are things we would always buy, and the frozen dinners have been pretty tasty.

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In our new and improved household, the boyfriend and I both do the cooking.Since we have opposite days off, we each basically do the planning/shopping/cooking of supper on our days off. (and just FYI, it was totally his idea!) We have different ideas about how to do it, of course. I'm more in the plan-ahead-and-buy-all-the-groceries-you-need-for-several-days camp, while he's from the

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I usually don't 'cook' much on Monday nights. It's just me and the kids, so we usually just do frozen pizza or burritos, or we do the value menu at some fast food (usually Wendy's). But for some reason, I got a wild hair to make some burgers last night. Maybe it was the pending storm.So my junior chef mentioned a cheeseburger with the cheese on the inside, and that idea grew. First, I doctored

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Been a long time, admittedly, since posting. Rest assured, it has not been as long since I made bread for my family! I haven't tried any new mixes or recipes lately, though.I've decided to add all cooking/eating experiences to this blog, and it will be easier to keep updated that way, also. Stay tuned for good recipes, restaurant critiques, food related stuff found on the web, and more!

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The Honey Wheat loaf was soooo good, and using a recipe was fairly painless, and we gobbled up the first loaf yesterday, so I made another just the same today. But we went to a buffet to eat, so I sent the loaf home with the boyfriend. The one thing that's not easy about making the bread from a recipe, is the yeast. I bought the little packets of yeast, figuring that one packet equals one loaf.

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OK. I'm finally ready to try an actual recipe. First try, from the book that came with the BreadMaker:Honey Wheat Bread1 egg, room temperature plus enough water 80 degrees to equal 1 cup2 TBLS oil3 TBLS honey1 1/2 tsp salt1 cup Whole Wheat Flour 2 cups Bread Flour1 1/2 tsp quick rise yeast or bread machine yeastProgram: BasicI turned the crust to "light"The loaf was very delicious!!

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I won't post another picture of the box. But I really like the Hodgson Mill's bread mixes better than the Krusteaz. I probably won't buy the Krusteaz brand anymore, they never turned out as well.Tried the Hodgson White, it was good, too. I switched the crust to 'light' and we liked that, the 'medium' or 'regular' was too crunchy. Light is just right.

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1106507411830089162005-01-23T13:54:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:25:34.091-05:00

Well, that loaf didn't turn out that great. It didn't raise as much as the other loaves have, I even measured it. Only 3 1/2" at it's fullest. Now, of course, I'll have to measure a fully risen loaf to compare. But I think they have been around 5".And the crust is, well, very crusty, not just from the crust, but it seems like not all the mix got mixed again. Hmmmm. Now I'm thinking it wasn't just

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1106498242412231082005-01-23T10:36:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:25:18.198-05:00

This one is still in the machine at this moment, but smells good. For those of you keeping track at home, this is the same mix I tried for the first loaf, and I want to check if it was just first time mistakes that made the loaf not so good. I measured the water more accurately this time, and I didn't level out the mix on top of the water. We'll see how it turns out. (We'll also see if there's

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1106412939441465772005-01-22T10:54:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:25:02.990-05:00

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Saturday's loaf turned out just great. I don't know if it's the brand, or just my experience. I'll have to try the first brand again. Letting the loaf rest for the recommended 2-30 minutes, really makes it easier to cut. This time, there was crusty places on two of the corners, but not a big deal, I just picked off the crusty parts.

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1104956796079278362005-01-05T14:24:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:23:19.571-05:00

Snow day today was a perfect time to try another loaf. I needed to first clear off the space on the counter for the bread maker to 'live' so it wasn't just sitting in a cupboard where it could get forgotten. So now the bread maker lives next to the coffee maker, hope they don't get too chummy, breaded coffee doesn't sound too great. ;pSo today's loaf was: I just had gotten my 1 cup almost

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1104954620298508412005-01-04T13:32:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:23:03.214-05:00

Still reading through instructions, wanting to learn as much as I can. A couple interesting things, there are two specific things that don't work well with yeast, and therefore can't be used in the yeast bread. They are garlic and cinnamon. Good thing they told me, because I'm a garlic fiend. The other thing I was interested in learning was 'room temperature'. What temp is that exactly, and how

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1104949944654552882005-01-03T11:44:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:22:37.931-05:00

So a lot of why I started this blog was to track the different mixes and recipes I try.The first two were Krusteaz brand, the only kind of bread maker mix available at the small store in the small town. I think the price for each was about $1.79, pretty sure they were each under two dollars. The two I bought were two out of three flavors that they had, so not much variety.I've always like the

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1104905796702635072005-01-02T01:05:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:22:17.813-05:00

On to the second loaf.I made sure to only use 1 cup of water. Oh, and on the water. The box mix says room temperature water. So I got water basically straight from the tap, before it gets hot or cold, and then I let it sit about 15 more minutes just to make sure. I think that's long enough, don't you?The instructions say to just use the 'basic' setting when using the box mix, but the box says to

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1104904857279862372004-12-31T22:52:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:22:03.086-05:00

Ready for hot, fresh bread. I read the instructions enough to see what kind of box mix to get. I've never used a bread machine before, so I'm completely clueless at this point. Looks like this one is a 1.5 pound loaf version. And it's best to only use 1.5 lb mixes. It won't really work well with 1 lb mix. Don't know why, maybe we'll have to experiment later.I also was trying to read the

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Well, I got a great bread maker for Christmas from my wonderful boyfriend. And before you say something like, "that's not a very romantic gift" let me asure you that he does quite well in that department. He spoiles me for my birthday, which is too close to Christmas (in case you've never seen my regular blog), so he makes a big deal of the birthday. PLUS, I really wanted a bread maker, and this

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1104861922156463652004-12-29T12:00:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:21:27.887-05:00

Here's my new Bread Maker

shellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968434297981802698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911228.post-1104717997673234682004-12-28T22:05:00.000-06:002007-08-13T07:21:10.166-05:00

I got a bread machine for Christmas!KEWL!

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